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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 288 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IDIOM (Gr. t&%wµa, something
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peculiar and
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personal; lbws, one's own, personal) , a
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form of expression whether in words, grammatical construction, phraseology, &c., which is
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peculiar to a
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language; sometimes also a
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special variety of a particular language, a
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dialect .

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